Whether its rationing scarce medical supplies or placing patients in isolation, ethical dilemmas in infection control frequently pit the needs of the one against the protection of the many.
Two separate outbreaks among frail infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) were linked to workers who were chronic carriers of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Federal counterterrorism officials are warning about a disturbing pattern of incidents in which people tried to gain access to hospitals by posing as surveyors from the Joint Commission.
The Joint Commission is applauding the public release of information on hospital clinical performance by the Hospital Quality Alliance. The measures used to produce this information meet the highest contemporary standards for reliability and validity.
Sixteen people including one who died acquired hepatitis C virus at three different clinics in Maryland after being injected with a contaminated radionuclide solution used in cardiac imaging, an epidemiologist reported recently in Los Angeles at the annual meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).
